Ballroom Thieves

Life on the road is easily glamorized: the joy of playing shows, the wonder of new places, the
stories. Yet the lifestyle is also a trying one: the suffocating isolation, the misery of being
separated from loved ones, the unspoken tensions. If unprepare...

Life on the road is easily glamorized: the joy of playing shows, the wonder of new places, the

stories. Yet the lifestyle is also a trying one: the suffocating isolation, the misery of being

separated from loved ones, the unspoken tensions. If unprepared, this life can become your

downfall. For Boston's The Ballroom Thieves, it became their sophomore album, Deadeye.

The harmony-rich folk on the Thieves' debut, A Wolf in the Doorway, led to guitarist Martin

Earley, cellist Calin Peters, and drummer Devin Mauch spending the last two years in a

sustained state of touring, taking stages across the country, including venerable ones like at the

Newport Folk Festival. Though they were prepared for the sudden lack of a sedentary existence

-- even packing their apartments into storage units -- it wasn't long before nearly nonstop touring

began to take its toll.

As the stability of home faded along the relentless road, fresh anxieties came into focus: